Moving on: A wizard move

Holland Park, the chichi west London enclave that is home to the Beckhams,
Robbie Williams and Simon Cowell, could soon be getting another stellar
denizen. Moving On has learnt that the actor Ralph Fiennes has been
househunting in the area. The Rada-trained thespian — who bagged Oscar
nominations for his roles in Schindler’s List and The English Patient, and
has frightened a generation of children as Lord Voldemort in the Harry
Potter franchise — has been looking at pads costing £3m-£4m.

If Fiennes, 51, signs on the dotted line, a Holland Park pile would be a far
cry from his current digs: a minimalist flat in Shoreditch, east London,
where he lives “like a monk who’s won the lottery”, according to his
brother, Magnus. The Grand Budapest Hotel star also has an apartment in New
York’s West Village and retreats to a rented house near Arezzo, in Italy: “I
read, I swim,